Teks -- Acts 7:33 (NET)

7:33 But the Lord said to him, ‘Take the sandals off your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.

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Robertson: Act 7:33 - Holy ground

Holy ground ( gē hagia ).

The priests were barefooted when they ministered in the temple. Moslems enter their mosques barefooted today. Cf. Jos 5:15.

Robertson: Act 7:33 - Sandal

Sandal ( hupodēma , bound under)

is here "a distributive singular"(Hackett). Even the ground near the bush was "holy,"a fine example for Stephen’ s argument.

Wesley: Act 7:33 - Then said the Lord, Loose thy shoes

An ancient token of reverence; for the place is holy ground - The holiness of places depends on the peculiar presence of God there.

JFB: Act 7:30-34 - an angel of the Lord

Rather, "the Angel of the Covenant," who immediately calls Himself JEHOVAH (Compare Act 7:38).

Calvin: Act 7:33 - Because the place wherein

33.Because the place wherein The Lord meant by this commendation which he giveth to the place, to lift up the mind of Moses into heaven, that he might not think upon any earthly thing. And if so be that Moses was to be pricked forward with so many pricks, that having forgotten the earth, he might hearken to God, must not we have our sides even, as it were, digged through, ⁴³³ seeing we are an hundred times more slow than he? Notwithstanding, here may a question be asked, how this place became so holy? for it was no more holy than other places before that day. I answer, that this honor is given to the presence of God, and not to the place, and that the holiness of the place is spoken of for man’s sake. For if the presence of God do make the earth holy, how much more force thereof ought men to have? ⁴³⁴ Notwithstanding, we must also note, that the place was thus beautified only for a time, so that God did not fix his glory there, as Jacob erected an altar to God in Bethel, after that God had showed some token of his presence there, (Gen 35:7.) When as his posterity did imitate the same afterward, it was such worship as was reproved. ⁴³⁵ Finally, the place is called holy for Moses’ sake only, that he may the better address himself to fear God and to obey him. Forasmuch as God doth now show himself unto us everywhere in Christ, and that in no obscure figures, but in the full light and perfect truth, we must not only put off our shoes from our feet, but strip ourselves stark-naked of ourselves. ⁴³⁶

TSK: Act 7:33 - Put

Put : Exo 3:5; Jos 5:15; Ecc 5:1; 2Pe 1:18

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Act 7:33 - Put off thy shoes // Holy ground

Put off thy shoes either out of reverence to the Divine presence, as Jos 5:15 , or that thereby he might show that he resigned himself wholly to God’ s will and disposal; as in Rth 4:7 , the kinsman, by pulling off his shoe and giving it to Boaz, did resign all his right he might have had to Ruth and the inheritance.

Holy ground whilst God manifested his presence there.

Haydock: Act 7:33 - Loose the shoes

Loose the shoes. This was a method of testifying respect among the eastern nations. The Mahometans do not wear their shoes in their mosques. The Jewish priests served in the temple with their shoes off. The angel who appeared to Josue ordered him also to take off his shoes. (Josue v. 16.) If the apparition of an angel, or of God himself, could make the place and ground holy so as to deserve external signs of respect, and veneration from Moses; how much more the corporal birth, abode, and miracles of the Son of God in Jewry, and the blessed Sacrament, must make that country, and all Catholic chapels and altars, holy? Is it not then the height of blindness to tax with superstition, the reverence Christians pay to things or places, rendered holy by the presence, or wonderful operations of God.

Gill: Act 7:33 - Then said the Lord to him // put off thy shoes from thy feet // for the place where thou standest is holy ground

Then said the Lord to him,.... To Moses, who through curiosity had made too near an approach:

put off thy shoes from thy feet; in token of humility, obedience, and reverence:

for the place where thou standest is holy ground; not really, but relatively, on account of the divine presence in it, and only so long as that continued.